Deconstructing Language Structure and Meaning
Explore the latest research on Romanian syntax, semantics, phonology, and acquisition. This comparative volume draws on diverse theoretical frameworks, making it a vital resource for linguists in Romance studies and beyond.
This book illustrates how global phenomena like digitalisation and climate change impact multinationals. As extant research does not fully explain emergent topics like digital business models and cleantech companies, this volume serves to fill this critical gap.
The Choral Works of Jennifer Higdon
Esteemed composer Jennifer Higdon writes fascinating and profound choral music. This book explores her works, citing the extensive relationship of the music to the texts. It presents compositional characteristics, analysis, and insights directly from the composer.
Discover the intricate geopolitics behind the Balfour Declaration. This book reveals how the interests of WWI powers intersected with the Jewish people’s march towards sovereignty, demonstrating how a precise alignment of forces altered the course of history.
This book explores the ‘mother ideas’ that form scientific knowledge, highlighting stability as a driving force in nature. This analysis leads to the introduction of consciousness and redefines elementary notions such as the “me”, beauty, and art.
This book proposes a new theory of the rhetorical situation for our age of new media. By merging theories of technology, geography, and rhetoric, it frames rhetoric as a non-linear entity, offering an innovative way to broaden the research scope of the field.
Leadership for the Future
This volume explores leadership approaches from the past and present, analysing them for future challenges. Drawing from future studies, it introduces the reader to concepts of leadership that are ‘future-ready’.
These musical essays on Albanian themes explore historical identity and traditional performance. In the 18th century, baroque composers began representing the hero Scanderbeg on the operatic stage, using music’s dramatic power to elicit an emotional response.
The Rose and Irish Identity
This collection of essays explores the exchange between Ireland and the Pacific Northwest using the rose—its petals and thorns—as a guide. Historians and writers examine overlooked aspects of colonialism, from biased courts and organized resistance to grief and poetry.
With over 150 colour illustrations, this collection of essays explores the history and mysteries of the “Coral Road” from the Mediterranean to Japan. Journey from Italy’s fisheries to Tibet, where coral is a sacred treasure, to the magnificent craftwork of the Edo Period.
This book investigates the linguistic phenomenon of blending in Arabic. Adopting a systematic and quantitative approach, it analyses how new words are formed, presenting practical findings and paving the way for further investigation in this field.
This book demythologises the Hitlerjugend Division. Using an innovative social psychology approach, it provides insights into the psychological mechanisms that facilitated their moral disengagement, culminating in the division’s unparalleled combat motivation and war crimes.
This book offers insight into Australian Indigenous Peoples’ perspectives on the built environment. Enriched with Indigenous voices, it discusses the value of their Knowledge Systems and their wish to journey into a shared, sustainable future, respectfully.
These wide-ranging essays are based on new research and linked by a vigorous methodology. Some re-visit well-known historians and subjects. Others make a convincing case for resurrecting the neglected or forgotten. All are problem solving and reach outwards, as well as inwards.
This volume presents collaborative research on key issues in medical science and public health. Topics include manufacturing vaccines in Africa, preventing HIV/AIDS and cancer, decreasing global childhood cancer disparities, and improving sanitation and health practices.
Controversies over Islamic Origins
How can we reconstruct the origins of Islam? This book addresses this question by exploring conflicting modern theories through case studies on the Qur’an, the Prophet, and conquest narratives, examining a spectrum of traditionalist and revisionist scholarship.
The digital age promised connection but delivered chaos, fake news, and manipulation. How must the Church respond? Drawing on timeless wisdom, these vital essays forge a path through the digital wilderness.
Luxury and American Consumer Culture
This book analyzes the role of luxury in American consumer culture, with case studies on how it affects our choices of automobiles, homes, and hotels. Adopting a global perspective, it also features analyses of luxury in China, Germany, Russia, and other countries.
Reclaimative Post-Conflict Justice
In response to the 2003 Iraq War, citizens formed the World Tribunal on Iraq to investigate war responsibilities. This book explores their experimental tribunal as a new form of post-conflict justice—a guide for reclaiming democracy for a peaceful and just world order.
Essays in Narrative and Fictionality
By one of postclassical narrative theory’s preeminent figures, this book reexamines foundational topics from the role of the author to the nature of fiction. It argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory, making crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates.